A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.

The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.

O never harm the dreaming world, the world of green, the world of leaves, but let its million palms unfold the adoration of the trees Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.

The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.

People may excite in themselves a glow of compassion, not by toasting their feet at the fire, and saying: "Lord, teach me compassion," but by going and seeking an object that requires compassion.

Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.

A man that is afraid is never a man.